“It's becoming a bit of a comedy sketch at the moment,” said Cole. “We know how talented he is.

“The manager has decided maybe he doesn't want him in the team, he doesn't work hard enough or whatever, but sometimes when you have that luxury, I think some of the boys in the team would be prepared to work a little bit harder to get him on the ball to produce that magic.

“Arsenal over the previous years, when Wenger was there, did that. You've got to play your best players when you need them, and Ozil is one of Arsenal's best.

Arsenal suffered a humiliating 1-0 defeat to BATE Borisov in the Europa League on Thursday (Pic: GETTY)

“He does get criticised a lot for his work rate, or lack of work rate, but his stats are up there for distance covered with many other players. He will certainly find a place somewhere, because he's got the game.”

Ozil moved to Arsenal for a reported £42.5m from Real Madrid in 2013 and has scored 30 Premier League goals in 155 games for the club.

Former Gunners defender Martin Keown thinks that his time at the club is probably coming to an end.

“Emery has tried to play him and if you wanted Ramsey to sign at the start of the season then you wouldn’t have started Ozil and that is what they did,” he said on BT Sport after the defeat to BATE Borisov.

“Ozil has been given that opportunity but he hasn’t performed so it is looking now like the only answer is that the player leaves the club unless he starts to up his level.”